Philippines says two coast guard vessels damaged by China’s ‘unlawful manoeuvres’, while Beijing says it took ‘control measures’ after vessels illegally entered waters around shoal
Chinese and Philippine vessels collided on Monday during a confrontation near a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, the two countries said.
Both countries blamed each other for the incident near the Sabina Shoal.
China and the Philippines have had repeated confrontations in the vital waterway in recent months, including around a warship grounded years ago by Manila on the contested Second Thomas Shoal that hosts a garrison. Beijing has continued to press its claims to almost the entire South China Sea despite an international tribunal ruling that its assertion has no legal basis.
“I’ve seen several people refuse to countenance credible sources because MBFC rates their Factual Reporting as MIXED”
yes, that’s my point about people not understanding how the site works and drawing false conclusions based on their assumptions.
…“importance you place on the distinction between MBFC’s “Factual Reporting” and “Credibility Rating” is irrelevant.”
in what world is correcting your ignorance about the contextual analysis of news sources on MBFC irrelevant?
that’s literally what you are making uninformed, misleading claims about.
You’re imagining that because two cars are labeled “slow”, they both must have the same fuel pump, drivetrain and engine without even asking how “slow” is defined or looking at either car.
you’ve misunderstood and consequently misrepresented the MBFC rankings.
“The issue is that MBFC’s ratings are politically motivated…”
proof?
You don’t like the founder personally, but there’s no proof of what you’re saying about MBFC.
“The fact that their rating system is convoluted and needs a page of explanation is definitely a demerit though.”
Two brief, concise paragraphs of specific context that explains their media bias rankings, the whole point of the site.
Your entire baseless complaint is that the rankings can’t be trusted, while exposing yourself as never having actually read any of the rankings past the first word.
This is not a controversial statement. The designation of the artificial center of MBFC’s political spectrum as ‘least biased’ should raise the eyebrow of anyone paying attention. It bears repeating that award-winning news organizations like The Guardian getting the same “Factual Reporting” rating as Breitbart is alarming, as is the similar categorization of several other reputable left-leaning news periodicals. Van Zandt is also unabashedly Zionist, repeating the slander that media outlets that criticize Israel are antisemitic. He regards LGBT lobby organizations as left leaning, even when they donate to both Democrat and Republican politicians and don’t engage in any economic intersectionality. There are several more obvious clues that Van Zandt is not a neutral observer, not the least of which is his own understated admission: that his judgement of left and right is from an “American Perspective” and “may not align with all countries.”
“…should raise the eyebrow…”
damning evidence you have there…
“…regards LGBT lobby as political and left -leaning…”
yea, dude. not a lot of fascist lgbt+ folks.
and then you apparently discovered, to your horror, that the American website created and run by Americans reports from an American perspective?
and the website disclaims to its users that other countries…may not think the same as America.
This is accurate.
for your education, many countries don’t think the same way as the United States does.
I guess it’s not weird you find this courtesy a shocker.
You personally don’t like its founder, and misunderstood the rankings of the website he created, to your displeasure.
MBFC has consistent rankings that it applies to all news sources equally.
you claim to disagree with some MBFC rankings, although you don’t bother to read or understand the rankings.
your personal dislike for the founder and personal disagreement with certain rankings is frankly irrelevant and pales in comparison to the fact that you didn’t even know there was more than one metric for MBFC.
raised eyebrows and believing that LGBT+ groups shouldn’t be classified as left-leaning is no proof.
Do you think that the position that cisgender straight people have the right to exist in public is a biased opinion? Is that position left or right biased?
the dislocated straws you are grasping at for being too lazy to read a webpage before criticizing it are absurd.
“Do you think that the position that cisgender straight people have the right to exist in public is a biased opinion?”
strictly to exist?
no.
cis straight people have the right to exist in public.
any other brain busters?
Why then is the position that gay people have the right to exist in public a biased opinion?
It is not a “biased” opinion, but it is certainly a political issue, to keep our topic consistent and hop ahead a few questions.
would you like to know why?
I’ll take another turn:
lgbtq+ prior having the right to exist in public is a political issue because lgbtq+ people have not achieved the unilateral, unchallenged right to exist in public everywhere yet, and overwhelmingly left-leaning political institutions and organizations are committed to extending that right to the lgbtq+ community.
Those left-leaning organizations are making political stances, engaging in political protest and rallies, passing (political, see where this is going?) legislation, to ensure that the conglomerate minorities of lgbtq+ have the undeniable right to exist in public.
these political actions are almost exclusively fought for and achieved by left-leaning organizations, resulting in the lgbtq+ movement being justifiably associated with and classified as left-leaning.
I’d love to skip ahead, but I’m not confident you know where this is going. We agree that gay people having the right to exist is a political issue, but it’s not a politically biased opinion.
Is science a political issue? Is it biased to value the authority of scientists on issues like climate change or vaccine effectiveness?
science is very obviously a political issue.
amazing.
that’s what you get for asking ill-defined questions without context.
please continue.
you can pretend i answered your straw man the way you wanted me to so that you can eventually, one day limp over to what appears to be coalescing into an inaccurate “gotcha!” based on false premises.